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To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill. When ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a ...